Comparison of cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis screening of close contacts and foreign-born populations

Although tuberculosis (TB) screening of immigrants has been conducted for over 50 yr in many industrialized countries, its cost- effectiveness has never been evaluated. We prospectively compared the yield and cost-effectiveness of two immigrant TB screening programs, using close-contact investigatio...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2000-12, Vol.162 (6), p.2079-2086
Hauptverfasser:	DASGUPTA, Kaberi, SCHWARTZMAN, Kevin, MARCHAND, Robert, TENNENBAUM, Terry Nan, BRASSARD, Paul, MENZIES, Dick
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biological and medical sciences Cohort Studies Contact Tracing - economics Contact Tracing - methods Contact Tracing - statistics & numerical data Cost-Benefit Analysis - economics Cost-Benefit Analysis - statistics & numerical data Emigration and Immigration - statistics & numerical data Humans Markov Chains Mass Screening - economics Mass Screening - methods Mass Screening - statistics & numerical data Medical sciences Population Surveillance - methods Prevention and actions Prospective Studies Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Quebec Sensitivity and Specificity Specific populations (family, woman, child, elderly...) Treatment Outcome Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - diagnosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - drug therapy Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - economics Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - transmission
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